Samuel > Samuel 's Quotes

“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.'
- Alexander the Great”
― Matthew Reilly, Seven Deadly Wonders

“I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before." -Gabriel Allon”
― Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant

“So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”
― Daniel Silva, The Marching Season

“To Pakistan? Or Afghanistan? Or Wherever-the-fuck-istan?”
― Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant

“The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them.”
― Daniel Silva, The Rembrandt Affair

“... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.”
― Brad Thor, The Apostle

“There are many lay people and scholars alike, both with and without the Muslim community, who feel that the pure orthodox Islam of the fundamentalists could never survive outside the context of its seventh-century Arabian origins. Apply twenty-first-century science, logic, or humanistic reasoning to it and it falls apart.
They believe this is why Islam has always relied so heavily on the threat of death. Question Islam, malign Islam, or leave Islam and you will be killed. It is a totalitarian modus operandi that silences all dissent and examination, thereby protecting the faith from ever having to defend itself.”
― Brad Thor, The Last Patriot

“You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.”
― Brad Thor, Black List

“You are remembered for the rules you break.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Experience: Mistakes you have survived.”
― Russell Blake, Night of the Assassin

“Rosette disappeared onto the dance floor. Wells sat in silence for a minute, watching the dancers. The worldwide cult of fast money spent stupidly. The worldwide cult of trying too hard. Moscow, Rio, Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York, London, Shanghai--the story was the same everywhere. The same overloud music, the same overpromoted brand names, the same fake tits, about as erotic as helium balloons. Everywhere an orgy of empty consumption and bad sex. Las Vegas was the cult's world headquarters, Donald Trump its patron saint. Wells had spent ten years in the barren mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He never wanted to live there again. But if he had to choose between an eternity there or in the supposed luxury of this club, he'd go back without a second thought.”
― Alex Berenson, The Silent Man

“I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

“Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum

“The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

“Sleep is a weapon!”
― Robert Ludlum

“Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Janson Directive

“I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity

“Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy

“A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum

“You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy

“It was important to keep moving. Certain struggles continued. Others had to be brought to a close. The wisdom was in deciding which.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Gemini Contenders

“Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity